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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. Although, looking at it another way, this requires that these folks be sexually active. I'd prefer that they stop procreating. In all honesty, I do sympathize with this, but I wouldn't wish the additional heartbreak on anyone. When you add in the issue of persons who are economically disadvantaged getting the quadruple bad news of 1) a genetic/reproductive issue PLUS 2) your doctors not being able to counsel you on your full alternatives for care PLUS 3) not being able to get local care and having to travel PLUS 4) not being able to afford that travel can care, it's just unspeakably cruel. I just had a stent put in. What would it have been like if my doctor had said "Yes, you have a clogged artery, but we don't do heart surgery here, I can't really tell you the alternatives, but I can refer you to a hospice. Best wishes." And if I wanted a stent I would have to debate driving or flying to Colorado, with concerns that there might be law enforcement or MAGA types trying to stop me from flying or driving and then not having insurance to cover the cost of the care or fear that I can't disclose the care to the insurance company and little extra money for travel? (When I was in college I was a young republican type and I actually wrote an op-ed for the school paper that was pro-life. I had a fucking deadline and I was a thoughtless little sexist wannabe Dartmouth Review type prick back then and it's a pretty profound regret, even though nobody read it and certainly doesn't remember it.)
  2. So refreshing to know that when Trump wins this case, in addition to the following truisms, the GOP is going to lock in the idea that Dems, and not the GOP, weaponizes law enforcement: GOP - more fiscally responsible. GOP - more responsible on national defense. GOP - backs the blue.
  3. Can anyone imagine what it would be like for wives or daughters to have a crisis pregnancy, and to know that a) the medical community is constrained by a code of silence in terms of medical advice, and b) at BEST, difficult decisions might require an emotionally devastated wife or daughter to have to travel hundreds or thousand of miles to get healthcare. I don't think men can fathom this kind of situation. What kind of man would allow that shit to possibly affect their loved ones? Let alone fellow citizens who may not have the economic ability to get beyond the emotional devastation? I'm not a one issue voter but I certainly have a minimum requirement.
  4. Squanto gave us Thanksgiving. Everyone ate so much corn they were butter from ear to ear. Squanto is a tragically underused name.
  5. https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/366-urban-warfare-2-0 In retrospect: 1)Yeah, we should have given the Jews one of the states. I would have chosen Mississippi. 2) We either jettison Isreal as allies or we quietly support their approach to destroying Hamas/getting hostages back. And loudly loudly support humanitarian efforts that might help non-combatants.
  6. Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen album cover?
  7. I'd love to see a 9th Circuit group of judges saying they are going to do their best to hire as many Columbia grads as possible. Fucking Alan Albright with his TU and UT diplomas.
  8. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice. (I found it interesting especially in the way my view of the slavery is still somewhat colored by Gone with the Wind and my lax Texas education.)
  9. Maybe she conflated him with Ted Lieu.
  10. So are vaccines safe and effective or not?
  11. As a boomer, I'm just glad another demographic looks stupid for once.
  12. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F399413060676699325%2F&psig=AOvVaw2xNmwpaLyViiYMxSUpINR6&ust=1714434531316000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CA8QjRxqFwoTCJiY7LuM5oUDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAf
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